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MEDP 383 Sound Design Project #4 


Production Summary: 
For this project, I did the soundtrack for a project I created from a previous class, New Genres, What Day is it? (May 2020). This project film I created was only 2 minutes something so I expanded the film longer but the footages shot for this film was few hours time-lapse of a mobile object. The film was a mixup time-lapse (so time isn’t necessary in order from morning to night) of an object but the focus was the shadows, light, time of the piece. My intention of the film was the concept of the same image over time, and how the time/lighting reflects the image/film. This film was about time, during COVID (beginning, transition from in-person to remote learning) where things happen, repeat, and to the point where we don’t know what day it is actually (or does it matter anymore). 
My approach for this soundtrack is to try to create the energy of the environment, the repetition, the mundane life, days feeling the same, and it seems to not end. I used realistic sounds but the whole soundtrack doesn’t necessarily “match” the images because it wasn’t supposed to. The sounds are diegetic yet off-screen. The sounds I used are from BBC sound effects library, freesound.org, Adobe Audition Sound Effects, and I recorded a few sounds. Sounds I collected include sounds like birds, crickets, wind, bell, noises from outside, siren, door knock, clock ticking, pouring a glass of water, turning on the fire, boiling water, phone ringing, typing, the laptop fan, yawning, and door squeaking. For these sounds, I played with the volume and relationship to each other sounds (also sounds from outside vs. sounds from inside).  I also played with the time of the sounds, the stretching; making it slower or faster (especially for the clock ticking) to represent the time for the image/time-lapse speed. Overall, I tried to make the sounds realistic main things of the daily, and that these sounds may not be what we choose to hear but they are sounds that are often surrounding us.

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